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Religion and the Body: Modern Science and the Construction of Religious Meaning
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ISBN: 9789004221116 9789004225343 Year: 2013 Publisher: Brill


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Religion and the body : modern science and the construction of religious meaning
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ISBN: 1280496452 9786613591685 900422534X 9004221115 9781280496455 9789004225343 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice. Just as interest in the neurosciences and related fields has burgeoned in contemporary society, interest in the fields of neuroscience and cognitive studies is also growing within the religious studies academy, and reflection on these shifts is well overdue. How do religious practitioners negotiate the interconnection of science and religion? What can the neurosciences add to scholars’ understanding of religion and to how humans construct religious meaning? Chapters address these questions by investigating religious experience and authority, the cultural construction and deconstruction of the body, and cross-cultural appropriations of the body.


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Dancing Culture Religion.
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ISBN: 1283548836 9786613861283 0739174746 9781283548830 9780739174746 9780739174722 073917472X 9780739174739 0739174738 6613861286 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lexington Books

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Provocative insights into the nature of dancing as inseparable from human vitality and distinctiveness emerge from this spiraling study of specific cultural dance traditions brought into conversation with various philosophical/theoretical perspectives centering on the topics: movement, gesture, play, masking, ritual, seduction, performance, religion; each the subject of engaging innovative analysis. The author draws on experience as dancer and academic to address contemporary issues such as gender identity development and plasticity and acuity throughout the lifespan.

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